Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
by Tanisha C. Ford
(Amistad)

Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet
by Dana Greene
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Lou Reed: The King of New York
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Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
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Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans
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Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M. D.
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How Benjamin Franklin Became a Revolutionary in Seven (Not-So-Easy) Steps
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Romney: A Reckoning (Mitt Romney)
by McKay Coppins
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Sam Bankman-Fried)
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On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
by Ronald C. White
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Coach Prime: Deion Sanders and the Making of Men
by Jean-Jacques Taylor
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Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post
by Martin Baron
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Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
by Matt Singer
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

Madonna: A Rebel Life
by Mary Gabriel
(Little, Brown and Company)

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
by John Guy and Julia Fox
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Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
by Staci Robinson
(Crown)

Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks: Dishonorable Leadership in the U.S. Military
by Jeffrey J. Matthews
(University of Notre Dame Press)

George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
by Philip Norman
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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
by Bret Baier
(Scribner)

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
by Liza Mundy
(Crown)

Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
by Steve Inskeep
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life
by Michael Burlingame
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives (Hank Asher)
by McKenzie Funk
(St. Martin’s Press)

The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet
by Marina Harss
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Magic: The Life of Earvin “Magic” Johnson
by Roland Lazenby
(Celadon Books)

The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
(The University of North Carolina Press)

A. K. A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball
by Sarah Royal
(Running Press Adult)

Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
by Peter Sarris
(Basic Books)

King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (John Hancock)
by Brooke Barbier
(Harvard University Press)

American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton
by Victoria Houseman
(Princeton University Press)

Out At The Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story
by Lynn Ames
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Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
by Lawrence Buell
(Oxford University Press)

The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman
(PublicAffairs)

Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession (June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren)
by Laurence Leamer
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons)

Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
by Scott Eyman
(Simon & Schuster)

Jane Seymour: An Illustrated Life
by Carol-Ann Johnston
(Pen and Sword History)

Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter
by Lucy O’Brien
(Rowman & Littlefield)

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman’s Narrative
by Gregg Hecimovich
(Ecco)

Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery
by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer
(University of Oklahoma Press)

Bridge and Tunnel Boys: Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and the Metropolitan Sound of the American Century
by Jim Cullen
(Rutgers University Press)

Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
by Robert Dance
(University Press of Mississippi)

Anymore for Anymore: The Ronnie Lane Story
by Caroline Stafford and David Stafford
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Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the “Little Review”
by Holly A. Baggett
(Northern Illinois University Press)

Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister
by Marc Kristal
(Frances Lincoln)

The Secret Life Of John Le Carré
by Adam Sisman
(Harper)

Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend
by Jeffrey S. Gurock
(NYU Press)

Spy for No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World
by Dave Lindorff
(Prometheus)

Publius Quinctilius Varus: The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster
by Joanne Ball
(Pen and Sword Military)

Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics
by Gary Scott Smith
(University of Illinois Press)

Commanding Professionalism: Simpson, Moore, and the Ninth US Army
by William Stuart Nance
(University Press of Kentucky)

A Surgeon and A Maverick: The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub
by Simon Pearson
(The American University in Cairo Press)

LBJ’s America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
edited by Mark Atwood Lawrence and Mark K. Updegrove
(Cambridge University Press)

White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America
by Shelley Fraser Mickle
(Imagine)

Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
by Jennet Conant
(W. W. Norton & Company)

Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
by Shohini Ghose
(The MIT Press)

The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras
by Sharony Green
(Johns Hopkins University Press)

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill
by Michael E. Shay
(Stackpole Books)

Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China (Semyon Kaspé)
by Scott D. Seligman
(Potomac Books)

The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
by S. Frederick Starr
(Oxford University Press)

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris)
by Catherine McNeur
(Basic Books)

Albrecht Dürer: Art and Autobiography
by David Ekserdjian
(Reaktion Books)

Stanford’s Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949–1968
by Roxanne L. Nilan and Cassius L. Kirk Jr.
(Stanford Historical Society)

The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
by John Ibbitson
(Signal)

Josef Hofmann: The Piano’s Forgotten Giant
by Elizabeth Carr
(Rowman & Littlefield)

Bugsy’s Shadow: Moe Sedway, “Bugsy” Siegel, and the Birth of Organized Crime in Las Vegas
by Larry D. Gragg
(High Road Books)

Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
by Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill
(Regalo Press)

Heir through Hope: Thomas Jefferson’s Lifelong Investment in William Short
by Peter Thompson
(Oxford University Press)

Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
by Donald Bogle
(Running Press Adult)

Codename TREASURE: The Life of D-Day Spy, Lily Sergueiew
by Peter Winnington
(Pen and Sword Military)

Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth
by Sam Jefferies
(University of Wisconsin Press)

The Hunting Falcon: The Story of WW1 German Ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke
by Christopher A Lawrence and Jay Karamales
(Air World)

The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
by David Herszenhorn
(Twelve)

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean: The World and Music of Blind Lemon Jefferson
by Alan Govenar and Kip Lornell
(La Reunion Publishing)

Atatürk: Father of the Republic of Turkey
by George W. Gawrych
(I. B. Tauris)

Henry Armstrong: Boxing’s Super Champ
by John Jarrett
(Pitch Publishing)

The Dillon Era: Douglas Dillon in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations
by Richard Aldous
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Al Capone
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(Black Panel Press)

In the Shadow of Isandlwana: The Life and Times of General Lord Chelmsford and His Disaster in Zululand
by John Laband and Ian Knight
(Greenhill Books)

The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Female Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion a Crime
by Nicholas L. Syrett
(The New Press)

Fate Deals A Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers
by George Behe
(The History Press)

2SAS: Bill Stirling and the Forgotten Special Forces Unit of World War II
by Gavin Mortimer
(Osprey Publishing)

Kim: A Biography of M. G. Founder Cecil Kimbe
by Jon Pressnell
(Dalton Watson Fine Books)

Charles I’s Private Life
by Mark Turnbull
(Pen and Sword History)

Charles II’s Illegitimate Children: Royal Bastards
by Sarah-Beth Watkins
(Pen and Sword History)

The Forgotten Tudor Royal: Margaret Douglas, Grandmother to King James VI & I
by Beverley Adams
(Pen and Sword History)

Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State
by Brian McGinty
(Potomac Books)

The Kingmaker’s Women: Anne Beauchamp and Her Daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville
by Julia A. Hickey
(Pen and Sword History)

Bram Stoker, Author of Dracula: An Illustrated Biography
by Neil R. Storey
(White Owl)

Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry
by Mark Ford
(Oxford University Press)

The Women Behind the Few: The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence During the Second World War
by Sarah-Louise Miller
(Biteback Publishing)

Vladimir Putin: The World’s Most Dangerous Man?
by James Greensmith
(Pen and Sword History)

Farley and Claire: A Love Story (Farley Mowat and Claire Wheeler)
by Michael Harris
(Greystone Books)

Trust the Circle: The Resistance and Resilience of Rubén Castilla Herrera
by Paloma Martinez-Cruz
(Belt Publishing)

Luminous Lives: A Biography of Anna-Eva Bergman
by Thomas Schlesser
(Eris)

On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics
by Gabriele Pedullà
(Columbia University Press)

Rain Dodging: A Scholar’s Romp through Britain in Search of a Stuart Queen (Mary of Modena)
by Susan J. Godwin
(She Writes Press)

Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast
by Sean Farrell
(Syracuse University Press)